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Les Crane, who died on July 13 at age 74, became an unlikely one-hit wonder in the British and American pop charts with “Desiderata” (1971), his spoken-word version of an obscure prose poem that ...

American talk show host who plucked a long-forgotten poem from obscurity and had a hit in Britain and the US with Desiderata Crane with his fourth wife, the actress Tina Louise, in 1972 Credit: Photo: ...

Les Crane, a talk radio innovator and Grammy winner remembered as the first television host to take on Johnny Carson, died on July 13. He was 74. Crane died of natural causes at Marin General Hospital ...

Radio host and one-time Johnny Carson talk show rival Les Crane, who found later success as a software developer and publisher, has died at the age of 74. Crane died Sunday of natural causes at a ...

Les Crane, a provocative talk-show host who was the first to challenge the primacy of Johnny Carson on late-night television – and lose – died Sunday in Greenbrae. He was 74 and lived in Belvedere.

American talk-show host who shot up the pop charts after transforming a long-forgotten poem into a hit Les Crane, who died on July 13 aged 74, became an unlikely one-hit wonder in the British and ...